Battery warning light

  1. Established Member Joined: May 2011 Norwich Posts: 1430 Forteee & Furiooooo
    #1
    So today my battery light has been coming on, before it came on I recently removed the front bumper and installed fogs, keep in mind they are not wired up just literally their for show at the moment, iv read in haynes manual or somewhere that you should disconnect the battery, dont no if this is right please let me no but i didnt disconnect it, so was driving around and it was on, after 3-5mins of driving the light goes off, I stop the car turn it of then on and its automatically on again, whats causing this? could I have messed something up because I didnt discontent the battery or what? .... cheers
  2. Established Member Joined: May 2011 Norwich Posts: 1430 Forteee & Furiooooo
    #2
    just been reading up more about this, and power steering going hard, I do not have power steering and to remove the bumper I moved the steering wheel so the tyre was facing the other way so I could get to the screw, was this a bad idea, the car was off and just turned the steering wheel so I could get to the screw, is that wat caused this?
  3. Infrequent Poster Joined: Apr 2010 stockport Posts: 103 Mk2 Saxo vtrt, clio sport, megane 225
    #3
    is it charging? is the alternator working?
  4. Established Member Joined: May 2011 Norwich Posts: 1430 Forteee & Furiooooo
    #4
    I dont no, happened today literally 5 hours ago
  5. Established Member Joined: Jan 2010 Bournemouth/Surrey Posts: 2458 Mk2 VTR
    #5
    Go to a Halfords store tomorrow and get them to do a battery and alternator test to check them out

    It's free btw
  6. Infrequent Poster Joined: Apr 2010 stockport Posts: 103 Mk2 Saxo vtrt, clio sport, megane 225
    #6
    thats defo what it sounds like to me.
  7. Saxperience Addict Joined: Dec 2009 Posts: 11714 A6 Le Mans tuned/A3 TFSI tuned
    #7
    battery is dead, the PAS going hard (you probably can hear a whining sound coming from it) is a tell tale sign. On every pug/sax I had, I always upgraded the battery to 75 amps (get the same battery as you would for a 1.5d, slightly bigger but fits) and it does wonders. The regular 45 amps battery is slightly not enough.